Opinion: Senator Jason Lewis Hits the Height Of Hypocrisy

A Letter to the Editor from Michael Olivo:

Our State Senator, Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) has reached the height of hypocrisy, pretending to care about teens vaping but full-throttle-ahead in allowing girls 12-17 to elect abortions of their babies in the womb without parental involvement nor consent. The State Representatives in our area pretend to be equally concerned about teen vaping, but are likewise co-sponsoring the Infanticide Bill: Democrat State Representatives Paul Brodeur of Melrose, Michael Day of Stoneham, Steve Ultrino of Malden, and Republican Donald Wong of Wakefield and Saugus are complicit in this atrocity. The Infanticide Bill is an atrocity these ways:

1. Removes parental involvement and consent in this deeply traumatic decision.

2. Expands abortion in the state to allow the formerly forbidden and dangerous 3rd trimester abortions which take the lives of babies who can live outside the womb.

3. For the Democrats who say they care about women - it does not require any abortions to take place in a hospital setting, thus allowing the “procedure” to take place in inadequate and unsafe facilities. Thus they let the “safe” part of “rare, safe and legal” be thrown out the window.

4. Most reprehensible, the Infanticide Bill allows for infanticide - removing the requirement to provide lifesaving care to a baby born alive after an attempted abortion. The baby will be left to die - while Senator Lewis regulates teen vaping.

The lucrative abortion industry serves to make money off girls as young as 12 years old in procuring their first abortion. No surprise then that Senator Lewis has been publicly endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of abortions. Furthermore, according to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance, Sen. Lewis and Reps. Day and Ultrino received election support in the form of staff time and phone banking from the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.

Lewis, Day, Ultrino, Brodeur and Wong also voted to secure $8 million dollars in “emergency funding” for “family planning” in Massachusetts. Guess who the recipient of some of those emergency funds is: yes it’s Planned Parenthood.

I wish to commend the Catholic Churches in our area for vocally and openly standing up against these positions and making us aware of those who are pushing Massachusetts towards these extremes.

One is hard pressed to reconcile these politicians advocating that a young woman must wait until she is 21 to purchase tobacco products, but can get an abortion behind her parents’ back at 12 years old. Cherry picking teen issues like tobacco and vaping, but permitting abortions for minor girls as young as 12 makes Senator Lewis and his cohorts speak loudly to all of us in the district. You are grossly inconsistent and purely political in your positions. You have crossed the line. We see it, we know it, and we won’t stand by without making you accountable for it.

Michael Olivo, Wakefield